Array tags were advertised writable but every write threw InvalidCastException
in ConvertForWrite (reported BadTypeMismatch); STRING writes went through the
Beckhoff marshaller with no length check against STRING(n) and the host's
ANSI code page, which the read side deliberately avoids.
- Array write: TwinCATArrayCodec.ToWriteElements converts exactly ArrayLength
elements to the declared type (CLR lists convert - ScadaBridge writes int[]
to Int16 nodes; a length mismatch or out-of-range element is BadOutOfRange, a
scalar value BadTypeMismatch) before any wire traffic; the ADS client plans
the layout from the resolved PLC array (TwinCATTypeGuard.CheckArray, as the
read does), encodes with TwinCATArrayCodec.Encode - the exact inverse of
Decode - and writes the raw bytes (new ITwinCATClient.WriteArrayAsync).
- STRING / WSTRING write: encoded at the PLC's declared width by
TwinCATStringCodec.EncodeString/EncodeWString (Windows-1252 or UTF-8 per
target, NUL-padded, strict: an over-long value or unrepresentable character
is OverflowException -> BadOutOfRange) and written as raw bytes.
- TwinCAT CLI read/write gain --array-length (+ --separator) for the hardware
gate.
Refs #739
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub9hGmYLQvn9XETzw7CMsT
Joseph Doherty